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I'm dying that this topic has already been started. We really are certifiable.

OK, now that THAT'S out of the way. I know there are people who want to see the BOTT release next, but I want to put my vote in for the Gospel years material to be released next. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top? That material has been almost completely neglected by the Bootleg Series, except for a couple tracks on BS Vol. 3.

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faerie queen wrote:

I'm dying that this topic has already been started. We really are certifiable.

OK, now that THAT'S out of the way. I know there are people who want to see the BOTT release next, but I want to put my vote in for the Gospel years material to be released next. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top? That material has been almost completely neglected by the Bootleg Series, except for a couple tracks on BS Vol. 3.

What I'd like to see (and this isn't really future releases so bear with me) are the older volumes reissued on vinyl. I'd really really like to have Live 1975 in the format but the prices online are horrendous. Maybe Music On Vinyl could get on that...

I'd love another BS 1-3 or Genuine Bootleg Series format that goes from early Bob to mod Bob. Having some gems in pristine/sbd quality (Mr. Tambourine Man with Garth on accordion in '74, One Too Many Mornings in '78 without the fillers we've had on BTF and Budokan).

It would also be far more justifiable spending a huge amount of money (I say this; I ordered the 18 CD BS 12!) on any deluxe edition, even for the average fan, as you are not inundated with repeats or similar versions from previous albums.

BS 12 Deluxe will contain some gems no doubt about it, but it will certainly be a chore to wade through it at times.

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faerie queen wrote:

I want to put my vote in for the Gospel years material to be released next. Please, pretty please, with sugar on top? That material has been almost completely neglected by the Bootleg Series, except for a couple tracks on BS Vol. 3.

Gospel years as well as NET have been completely ignored so far.

I'd like to see 1) a live show from '79 or '80 2) either the Supper Club or a 1999-2001 live compilation

I can't imagine that Gospel era bootlegs would offer me anything that I don't already have so I'm not as excited about that release as others seem to be. The Blood on the Tracks sessions I guess could be interesting, but I'm kinda meh on that as well.

I don't really feel the need to hear outtakes for albums that are already perfect. I'd rather see stuff that was left on the cutting room floor in later years or in less celebrated eras.

Just theorizing here, but something from the whole 1974-76 era seems most likely, for no better reason than it was nearly actually announced a while back. It would appear that the Dylan camp figured that Paul McCartney and his solicitors would sort through the whole EU copyright thing on their behalf, and when that didn't happen in time, they were kind of caught with their pants down (as fascinating as the music is, the 1962 copyright extension set was executed rather sloppily.)

I just don't want to go out on a limb and predict a "Blood On The Tracks" set, rather than a "mid-70's" set. Two of my favorite BS releases, "Tell Tale Signs" and "Another Self Portrait", were each thoughtfully assembled to create a unique musical mosaic, rather than simply churn through a batch of outtakes. It is my hope that somebody with vault access could put together a wide range of interesting stuff ranging from "Pat Garrett" through "Renaldo And Clara" and somehow create an interesting narrative for that particular era of Dylan's career.

Just as Another Self Portrait was not merely outtakes from Self Portrait, but rather spanned SP, NS, and NM, I think a BOTT release would also span a territory, including at least Desire, but also maybe JWH and PG.

That is what I am waiting for. I think, since they have already alluded to unreleased tracks a-plenty, this would be an amazing release.

I would also enjoy the gospel years, but would be very disappointed if BOTT did not come first.

Just as Another Self Portrait was not merely outtakes from Self Portrait, but rather spanned SP, NS, and NM, I think a BOTT release would also span a territory, including at least Desire, but also maybe JWH and PG.

John Wesley Harding? That wouldn't make any sense as part of a Blood on the Tracks, etc set. Perhaps you meant Planet Waves?

But yeah anyways to pitch in, I think the sets that I would like to see in the near future are as follows...

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks, Desire and Street-Legal all on one Another Self Portrait type set. However I could see it just being a Blood on the Tracks set as that album itself is quite marketable on it's own. Me though, I'm not sure there's a lot of unreleased stuff left in that well, and I think we could get some very cool stuff from the surrounding albums, like "Goodbye Holly", "Crosswind Jamboree", "Money Blues", "Coming from the Heart" and whatever else. I think it would be a cool set.

The Gospel years would be amazing as well. A lot of unreleased songs, some live, some studio.

Supper Club. I think that would be a great set. What I've heard has been awesome. And "Ring Them Bells" on Tell Tale Signs from the Supper Club is absolutely beautiful.

I agree, though perhaps Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks & Desire would be better as a cohesive whole, with Street-Legal being included in the Born-Again phase? Similar style of music and there's no doubt about the religious overtones of Street-Legal while still coming before his public conversion.

On the conversation of John Wesley Harding, if there were any unreleased songs, I feel they would have been released on Another Self Portrait. I think it's safe to say that the only outtakes from JWH are alternate versions of what's on the LP.

OK, Cutting Edge ain't bad. As suspected, gonna have to make my own set out of the this for casual listening. Yes, 6 discs is enough...disc 3 is TOO much, but good for inquisitive insight when one has the time (when is that?).

The reason the BOTT release hasn't happened yet is that some of the session tapes went astray, infuriating those who wished this to happen. It is in hand but a missing reel or so is still a missing reel or so... you want ' the incomplete' or would you prefer to wait?

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slimtimslide wrote:

The reason the BOTT release hasn't happened yet is that some of the session tapes went astray, infuriating those who wished this to happen. It is in hand but a missing reel or so is still a missing reel or so... you want ' the incomplete' or would you prefer to wait?

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